Epstein Secrets

series of dinners—an ongoing seminar about media, communications, art, music, and philosophy that focused on Cage’s interest in the ideas of Wiener, Claude Shannon, and Marshall McLuhan, all of whom had currency in the New York art circles in which I was then moving. In particular, Cage had picked up on McLuhan’

e global fab lab network. Alison Gopnik is a developmental psychologist at UC Berkeley; her books include The Philosophical Baby and, most recently, Zhe Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016805 T

arguments in Zhe Human Use of Human Beings seem closer to the 19th century than the 21st. In particular, although Wiener made reference throughout to Claude Shannon’s then-new work on information theory, he seems not to have fully embraced Shannon’s notion of information as consisting of irreducible, meaning-free

. “L. Schulz, “The origins of Inquiry: Inductive inference and exploration in early childhood,” Trends Cog. Sci., 16:7, 382-89 (2012). 4 A. Gopnik, Zhe Gardener and the Carpenter (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016), chaps. 4 and 5. 157 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016960 paradox of learning, the best artificial i

series of dinners—an ongoing seminar about media, communications, art, music, and philosophy that focused on Cage’s interest in the ideas of Wiener, Claude Shannon, and Marshall McLuhan, all of whom had currency in the New York art circles in which I was then moving. In particular, Cage had picked up on McLuhan’

e global fab lab network. Alison Gopnik is a developmental psychologist at UC Berkeley; her books include The Philosophical Baby and, most recently, Zhe Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016222 T

arguments in Zhe Human Use of Human Beings seem closer to the 19th century than the 21st. In particular, although Wiener made reference throughout to Claude Shannon’s then-new work on information theory, he seems not to have fully embraced Shannon’s notion of information as consisting of irreducible, meaning-free

. “L. Schulz, “The origins of Inquiry: Inductive inference and exploration in early childhood,” Trends Cog. Sci., 16:7, 382-89 (2012). 4 A. Gopnik, Zhe Gardener and the Carpenter (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016), chaps. 4 and 5. 157 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016377 paradox of learning, the best artificial i